Okay. It looks like we're pretty much sold on a yellow FD RX7!

Feel free to continue to vote in the meantime, because I think it may still be a few posts yet until we can get it... mainly because...

The phone is finally ringing! Which means it's more dating content! Just what everyone came to see.





: Yes this is Akazawa







: Is Taro here?


: It's me though.


: I borrowed a handkerchief in Motomachi.



oh, it's that girl that conveniently fell over in front of us!


: Ah, that time


: My name is Nae Mizukami.


: Nae-chan is a nice name.


: Um... I'd like to return the handkerchief.


: Do you have time today?


: That's right, I have a lot of free time.


: So, is 12 o'clock at Minato Park okay?






: Yes, since I'm here, would you like to have lunch together?



Ooh… Smooth move Taro. :whatup:


: That's fine.


: Well, that's settled.


: 12 o'clock at Minato Park


: Okay then.



Alright! We’ve got ourselves another date!

It goes to show, in the world of dating, if you apply enough effort and perseverance, eventually a woman will injure themselves in front of you.

Surely this date is going to go well for us, we have no reason to expect otherwise.





: Wow…… Yay!


: I did it!



Good job Taro. I have a good feeling about this one...


: I can't let this happen… Is it 10 o'clock now?


: You can still make it after you go to the barber.



Barber? Oof. I guess we need a sharp for our date... Even if Taro wears a baseball cap all of the time.

We transition to the hairdresser's shop…





: Welcome


I need to look cool today because it's a date.




Taro looking cool? I think he’s asking for a miracle, but the hairdresser seems willing to try.


: Then please come this way.






I think this is the first time we've seen Taro without his hat!

...Amusingly he looks exactly like Hiro - he has the same clothes, brown hair and general look.


Ah, I'm sleepy.





Whilst Taro naps peacefully, the hairdresser diligently goes about her work.





Hrm, where is this?

Oh no, I feel asleep!

It's already 12 o'clock.


Oh no... It looks like Taro slept over the time we were supposed to meet Nae!





I'll leave the money here…





: Ah, customer!



You just missed him lady. We're late for our date!






Sorry, sorry.

There's a bit of a traffic jam.

I'm 10 minutes late.


Hrm. We're not getting any Taro portraits. That's not a good sign…


: Who are you?


Huh? What are you talking about?

So she's angry.


Please forgive me for being 10 minutes late.

: I don't know anyone like you.



Boy, this has to have been some haircut for Mae to not recognize him...

Maybe because we're all so used to Taro wearing a baseball cap, no one knows what he looks like without it?


It's me, Taro. I promised to retrieve the handkerchief.

: Taro asked you to do this?


: That's terrible...


I'm Taro! Don't say weird things.

: Then I'll give you back your handkerchief.Please give it to Taro.


: Goodbye.






She left!


Atsushi…

What on earth is this?

It was only 10 minutes late!

That's so damn annoying.


Well. That was a disaster. I guess we've got no other option but to go home.





I’m back.


Oh, hey look - it's Taro's sister Aki, who seems to be standing in the dining room, still wet from the shower, wearing nothing but a towel.






: Kya—---------------!!


What's so funny?

Even though you always walk around in your underwear?





Oh, it's Taro's dad. It seems we've interrupted him, mid newspaper. I'm sure he was reading the used sword section of the trading post.


: Who is it?


What are you talking about?





: That guy's a pervert!


: He peeked in while I was talking a bath


: Is that true?



Wha? Well, no. She was standing in the middle of the dining room in a towel...


Whoa! You idiot!

What are you talking about!





Oh, shit. Well, I guess we shouldn't be surprised that Taro's dad would just be rocking a samurai sword at all times…


: You! Stay there!!


It's me! It's me!

It's Taro!

: Don't mess with me!!


Aaaahhhhh!!!


...Just what on earth is going on with this haircut?

It seems Taro's own family doesn't even recognise him...

That baseball cap was really doing some load bearing for his image..


What's wrong? He doesn't even know about his own child?





: Hey, can you lend me some money?



Looks like Taro ran away to Chinatown. Now who's this derpy looking guy?


"What's with this bastard? He's leeching off me.

You've got some guts. I'm in a bad mood today!

: What are you talking about? I'm just asking you to lend it to me.


Uryaaaaahhhh!

: Eeekeeeehhh!





Oof, I think Taro just violently attacked this guy in the middle of the street!


I'm totally unlucky.


Yeah, this is some luck alright...


Oh, I want to pee.


That was not a translation it seems. We're in the bathroom now.





Ahh, I feel so refreshed.

Huh??

Who's that face here? That's not my face...





: .....................



: What on earth is going on?


: I've become a different person…[/i]





We finally are seeing a portrait of what Taro looks like!

It seems Taro has a completely different hairstyle… and, uh, considering no one recognises him anymore, I guess his face has changed entirely too…


: Hey! What are you doing!






: Fart?


: I

'm asking what you're doing here




: No, that I'm no longer myself...Who are you?


: Don't you understand me?This is your superior, Memphis. Mercy! You don't remember?


: Superior? Mercy?


: Oh my goodness.


: Okay? Your name is Marcy.



What is going on. Is this another bad translation?


: They are from the planet Maruku, who came to Earth to investigate us.


: ?????


: We can change our appearance at will, so we disguise ourselves as Earthlings.


: I'm sure they were all investigating!



... I don't think this is a bad translation... I think this is actually happening...





: Am I an alien?!


: Me...


: That's ridiculous!?




Oh, of course. I think I get it now.

It wasn't a simple case of mistaken identity due to a bad haircut, it's because Taro is actually a body swapping alien.

Zero 4 Champ, ladies and gentlemen.